That would be interesting to find out. I would imagine that there components of both points that are standing in the way of success.

@Zaid They also have new ECU's made by Magneti Marelli. They can program them but they don't get to design the base ECU. It's for cost controls. So an additional problem is that they are all trying to figure out the new ECU. In Barcelona they were spinning their rear wheels down the back straight in 6th gear. ALL of the teams.

I think it's an experience issue for the teams using the new ECU, Michelin with the tires and the FIM with creating a usable framework for everyone. Dorna, the rights holder, is good though. They will have changes for next year that actually make sense unlike how F1 works.

Honda tries to be Putin but their threats to leave if the standard ECU was implemented makes them a paper tiger now. They don't follow through on their threats and now everyone understands the game. They just lost a lot of credibility this year. That being said, they just secured the Championship this last weekend in Japan.

The crappy ECU's are apart of their cost reduction program. Honda, it's claimed, had over 50 software developers working on their ECU before the standard came out.

A profile gauge or contour gauge is a tool for recording the cross-sectional shape of a surface.
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There are already a million places on the internet where you can type simple car maintenance questions and get a bunch of teenagers telling you some random nonsense that they have no reason to know the answer to (Yahoo!Answers anyone?)
If we fill up the private beta with questions like
How do ...

I once answered a question that asked how Stack Overflow makes money, but that was before the time of VC.
Now, Stack Overflow has cash, and they have an ever-growing list of employees, but where's the business model?
The Experts-Exchange team took the time to answer its own Q&A about its site (...

"Instead of "somebody who repairs vehicles for a living", I think we want "somebody who repairs vehicles". An enthusiast for Make X, Model Y, Year Z who works on their own vehicle. Who rarely, if ever, takes it to a shop for anything. Who, when faced with a good description of a common problem, will tell you exactly what's wrong and what the fix is. Maybe they make their living as a mechanic. If they don't, though, I think their input is just as valuable as somebody who does."

That pretty much sums up what the site has become, and I think it works really well

So, after waiting quite a few months for the site to open on the premise that it is for
mechanics and DIY enthusiast owners of
cars, trucks, and motorcycles.
You now want to take advantage of our patience and long term commitment and change the site to something that will actually exclude...

In case you missed the first one, check out the se-quality-project tag. The quality project isn't one that we plan to ever finish, it's perennial and kicks in every 18 months or so after we've had ample opportunity to observe the efficacy of our previous efforts, changes in how people use our sit...

I've got 6 months of savings to find out. Ideally away from programming and into project management. Actually my next move once things settle down will be to apply for a job at SE. They've got product management positions opening up all the time and their HQ is a 15 minute train ride from my apartment. So that'd be nice.

What keywords can I add to a Google search to increase the chances of finding a picture of a car from underneath (real or service diagram), like while it's up on a lift, do you guys have any tricks?

"undercarriage", "from bottom", "underneath", + "diagram" to all of those, no luck.

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To be honest, it goes on my nerves if someone down-votes my questions / answers with no reason even more when it is posted within a r...